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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Democrats see path to carbon ‘cap and invest’ bill
A price on
greenhouse
emissions
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State Dem-
ocratic lawmakers say they
may fi nally have enough
momentum to enact a “cap
and invest” carbon dioxide-re-
duction program in 2018.
State Sen. Michael Dem-
brow, D-Portland, and Rep.
Ken Helm, D-Beaverton, are
convening work groups Sept.
21 to help refi ne a proposal
that has evolved over the past
few years.
“I think there is a path to
get this done in 2018,” Dem-
brow said. “The sooner we do
it, the sooner we can do the
work and get the investment
going.”
House Speaker Tina Kotek
and Gov. Kate Brown have
both backed the effort.
Similar to a program in
California, the Oregon pro-
posal would limit the amount
of carbon dioxide a business
could emit each year. After
exceeding the cap, the busi-
ness would be required to buy
market-priced
allowances
for any additional emissions.
The payments would encour-
age businesses to reduce their
carbon footprint. Meanwhile,
proceeds from the competi-
tive auction of those allow-
ances could yield an esti-
mated $700 million per year
to invest in projects that slow
climate change, supporters
say.
At the end of the legisla-
tive session in July , Kotek
identifi ed the program as an
unfi nished priority.
And one week later, the
governor announced that she
would seek to pass a state
“cap and invest” bill next
year. She made the announce-
ment at a screening of former
Vice President Al Gore’s “An
Inconvenient Sequel” hosted
by environmental group
Renew Oregon in Portland.
A reporter from the New
Yorker, who attended the
screening, quoted Brown as
saying: “I think the rest of the
world needs to see Americans,
and Oregonians, standing up.
‘…it doesn’t appear the
g overnor’s o ffi ce has much
intention of working with
Republicans on that issue.’
Preston Mann,
a spokesman for House Minority Leader
Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte
We must participate, and we
must be part of the solution.”
About 100 businesses,
including fuel suppliers, elec-
tricity providers, landfi lls and
manufacturers — which emit
at least 25,000 tons of carbon
dioxide per year — would
have to buy allowances.
A price on carbon could
then be used to invest in proj-
ects such as solar panel instal-
lations or construction of
affordable housing near light
rail lines, said Brad Reed of
Renew Oregon.
Reaching out
Helm and Dembrow are
reaching out to Republicans
and members of industry to
join the “cap and invest” work
groups. The invitations came
as a memo to the g overnor’s
o ffi ce in August identifi ed
only Democratic lawmakers
as members of the groups.
“Based on the memo
released by the g overnor’s
o ffi ce, it doesn’t appear the
g overnor’s o ffi ce has much
intention of working with
Republicans on that issue,”
said Preston Mann, a spokes-
man for House Minority
Leader
Mike
McLane,
R-Powell Butte.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario , said he plans to decline
an invitation to join the work
groups.
“I don’t want to be brought
along as window dressing for
an outcome already deter-
mined by the Democrats,”
Bentz said.
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TROUTDALE — Hiking
trails affected by a wildfi re
in the Columbia River Gorge
might be closed for months,
authorities said Monday.
Landslide risk, potential
for falling trees, root snags
and severe erosion as the win-
ter rains start will have repair
crews busy until spring, Dawn
Stender, a trail crew supervisor
for the Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area, told The
Oregonian.
The fi re in the Columbia
River Gorge has displaced
hundreds of residents, shut
down Interstate 84 and burned
52 square miles since it started
over the Labor Day weekend
in one of Oregon’s most trea-
sured natural places.
Eastbound lanes of I-84
will remain closed another
week and offi cials on Sunday
expanded the trail closures to
all recreation areas.
The fi re damaged the pop-
ular Angel’s Rest trail, leaving
the steep, switchback path look-
ing like a moonscape pierced
with blackened tree trunks. Fire
also burned a pedestrian tunnel
near Oneonta Gorge.
Man who fell at Oswald West identifi ed
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Costs
Opponents also say costs of
the program would eventually
trickle down to consumers.
“We would have a lot
of concerns about the way
the program is presented so
far because the individuals
affected by this are in rural
and low-income communi-
ties who already have taken
the brunt of policy changes
recently and in the last
decades,” Mann said.
A study by the Oregon
Department of Environmen-
tal Quality indicated the costs
could have an inordinate effect
on people in low-income and
rural communities because
they already spend a larger per-
cent of their income on fuel.
But another study out of
California shows record eco-
nomic growth and carbon
reductions came in tandem
with that state’s participation
in a “cap and invest” program.
Oregon is modeling its
program after California’s,
so the state can learn from its
southern neighbor’s mistakes
and successes, Dembrow said.
The California report
“busts the old myth that
reducing emissions comes
with reduced economic activ-
ity, even as their population is
growing, pollution is falling
and the economy is booming,”
said Reed of Renew Oregon.
“Opponents of the poli-
cies in California … said the
same bad things. History has
proven them wrong.”
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Columbia Gorge trails might be
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TONIGHT
He said discussions
should center on whether
“cap and invest” is right for
Oregon.
State lawmakers have yet
to assess how much existing
policies have already reduced
carbon dioxide , Bentz said.
“In its place in the world,
has Oregon done its part or
not?” he said. “Those are
justifi able questions to ask
because we are a small state.”
Deciding whether to adopt
“cap and invest” should wait
until 2019, when the Legis-
lature will have a session of
more than fi ve months, Mann
said. The session in 2018 lasts
only 35 days.
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